Cygwin symbolic links on a SAMBA server

Sun Feb 28 23:02:00 GMT 1999

I guess you missed a message in Cygnus archive :-) Mumit has already
explained this week (on Monday?)
Thanks for refreshing memory. :-)
Suhaib
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Biskis <mlx@san.rr.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>; Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Cygwin symbolic links on a SAMBA server
>Hello all,
>>Yes, indeed, this post got me off my duff to do a little research.
>>I found "SAMBA, Integrating UNIX and Windows" by John D. Blair.
>>Uncovered the following info which is claimed to be current to
>version 1.9.18 (early patches).
>>From page 191 ---
>>Retaining the DOS Hidden, Archive and System Attributes:
>>map archive
>>Default: map archive = yes
>>map hidden
>>Default: map hidden = no
>>map system
>>Default map system = no
>>So, to get the Cygnus symlink system attribute to translate accross
>SAMBA correctly one must set:
>>map system = yes
>>The section goes on to state that map archive, hidden and system use
>the UNIX user, group and other execute bits, respectively.
>>The info below is slightly different, so I'll test it now and post the
exact
>results.
>>I apologize for the jumping the gun a bit.
>>Thanks,
>>Steve B.
>>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>
>To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 2:54 PM
>Subject: Cygwin symbolic links on a SAMBA server
>>>UWIN (and Cygwin) implements the symbolic links by adding a magic
>>cookie to the file and then setting the SYSTEM attribute (this is
>>possibly just for efficiency, at least in Cygwin). Samba servers
>>support this SYSTEM attribute by setting the group execute bit on a
>>file, so it does support the symbolic links already. Unfortunately,
the
>>reason you don't see it is because it's turned OFF by default.
>>>>If you need to have symbolic support in the server (which I do since I
>>do a lot of the work on mounted disks), you can turn it on by the
>>following in the Samba configuration file and then restarting it:
>>>> mask system = yes
>> create mask = 0775
>>>>the "create mask" can be anything as long as you *DON'T* mask out the
>>group execute bit (ie., 010), which is what Samba server uses to
>>support the SYSTEM attribute.
>>>>Please consult your SAMBA docs before doing anything. I don't know how
>>far back this support goes, but I remember it back in 1.9.x days.
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